Planning for League One

But they come straight back down. We can’t allow that to happen.

So, my point is our squad needs massive work for us to stay in league one. key decisions have to be made.

The club now needs to kick on! Rupp needs to decide if he is the man to make that happen.

 

Absolutely bang on
It’s taken long enough to turn this juggernaut around and get it moving in the right direction
Need to keep the momentum and good will going

 

I guess it ultimately depends on £’s. Understand he is happy in the area so location likely to play a part. IMO he should still be playing EFL football, but not sure that’s as much as thing nowadays as it used to be as the gulf is smaller.

What is for sure, he’s been a great servant to the club and at times a real joy to watch and comes across a really decent guy. I always find it sad to see players leave that we have a connection with, but what is certain is there ultimately comes a time for players to move on.

 

Agree with @Faithful Bantam , add Halliday to that list. In addition I’d include Sam Walker providing he’s got a decent back line ahead of him. I also think Baldwin will transition fine but again needs quality alongside him. I’d like to see us go all out to sign as good a new CB as we can afford.

 

Whilst I do think obviously we have to go out and get a bit of quality in. I think it will be the quality of our loan players next season that will decide our fate.
We are now league one we have big crowds and could be a good testing ground for developing good players. I hope our management team have good contacts in order to find these players. And we need to continue to bring in players that can blend in so that we can keep that tremendous team spirit which is so important

 

As I said very few come straight back down in their first season. Obviously we need a good recruitment but to say most players that we have already aren't L1 capable is a bit of an overstatement. As I said elsewhere we are probably seeing around a dozen players leave either out of contract or loan returns plus a few in contract that will likely move on Smith oduor etc and I do see us bringing in 10/12 players to add to what we have however I don't see us going all out signing say 18 newbies as if you believe only a handful are good enough that's what would be required.

 

Getting the likes of Oliver of the wage bill and his reported £3500+ per week will help
£500,000 pounds or about £70,000 per goal

 

We use Wallsall because we just pipped them but at Christmas we lost cook and since then overtook all our rivals as far as points gained. I knew since I saw the fixture list that it was going to be a very tough run in.

 

I don't disagree with any of that but it's also worth bearing in mind that if we'd been able to pick our 11 best players for the majority of the season instead of being without them for large chunks of it, our promotion would have been secured much sooner and we'd probably have gone up as champions.

 

It wasn't a comprehensive or exhaustive exercise, but because I wasn't interested in what Mrs H had put on the telly I had a look at the latest financials for a few L1 clubs for 23/24. Made interesting reading the clubs operating to sizeable defecits and needing significant owner cash injections. We aren't in a bad position, if sensible but still ambitious, to be competing for players and building a decent L1 squad.

 

we don't even know at this point if reading will even be around this time next year....supposedly a deal has been reached but ive heard that before and its fallen through...we should be better than 4 teams next year but yeah peg luton to go back up and there is still a bunch of big clubs around us...but we are a big club as well

 

City were lucky to be automatic promoted. We came up against the biggest bottle jobs in football Walsall who didn’t win in something like 15 games.

Yes, we take it but we shouldn’t have made it so difficult which highlights to me our current squad isn’t good enough for league 1.

The cheque book really needs to come out our we are going straight back down. We need Sharpe and GA to enjoy the next few days then get straight back to work.

I can’t be doing with league 2 again. Painful that was. Let’s build. Move this club forward now. Invest to attract.

Not saying we are L**ds but look what they did get promoted and straight away say they are extending their ground. That will attract players to join them. We need now to show ambition. The fan base is there..

Over to you now Rupp and Sparks- Do your jobs!

 

Smallwood hasn’t been too shabby?

 

It “ sounds “ a great idea , but as an example Walsall got Wheatley from Manure ( To replace Lowe) , he still played for Manure representative sides whilst at Walsall , he’s trained regularly in both camps ……He’s been utter garbage in men’s football. His first game , remember was at VP I think. He came on when Matt got taken off…… Bambi on ice , Walsall fans arnt exactly enamoured . As he’s hardly played .